Women on Walls is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy, that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits, creating a lasting cultural legacy for Ireland in 2016.

An early-stage medtech venture developing a new microneedle platform technology has won a UCD commercialisation award. The creator of Micro Needle Slow-Mo is Ellen Cahill, a PhD student in the UCD Medical Device Design Group within the UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

Professor Da-Wen Sun, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, has become the Founding President of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE), and has also been named a founding Fellow of iAABE.

TEAM, a new €4 million research and training network focused on developing new technologies to support the provision of mental health services for young people, was announced recently at University College Dublin (UCD).

This autumn, schoolchildren around Ireland collected a new series of books produced by UCD called Science Apprentice. The five books, which were available free with the Irish Independent in Tesco stores nationwide, delved into topics about Space, Energy and Resources, Food and Health, Computers and Data and how technology will underpin our Connected Futures.

Professor Tom Brazil has been elected President of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). The MTT-S promotes the advancement of microwave theory and its applications. These include mobile phones, Wi-Fi, radio and radar.

PhD student, Dearbhla Lenehan is announced as the 2016 UCD Conway Festival gold medal recipient for her research on the interactions between platelets and bacteria during the inflammatory response to bloodstream infections known as sepsis. This insight is vital to designing effective treatments to combat infections in future.

UCD has presented Professor Kevin O’Connor, a leading green technologies researcher and innovator, with the NovaUCD 2016 Innovation Award. The Award was presented to Professor O’Connor, UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Earth Institute, by UCD President, Professor Andrew J. Deeks, during an event held at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs.

A 5,300-year-old mummy found in the Alps was wearing clothes made from at least five different ancient species of animal when he died, according to genetic DNA analyses carried out by a University College Dublin scientist.

With seven UCD research projects among 24 to receive funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Investigators Programme announced today, UCD once again leads the field with the highest number of projects funded.

UCD alumnus Dr Marc Ó Gríofa will join two astronauts and three other researchers on an undersea research station as part of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations programme (NEEMO) this month.

The centre will treat more than 45 per cent of all breast cancer cases in Ireland and 25 per cent of all pancreas cancer cases. It will also account for 50 per cent of all breast cancer screening in Ireland.

Fighting infection in the gut relies on a dynamic relationship between the cells that line gut walls and microbiota – the hundreds of different bacteria that co-exist within the human body without causing harm.

Atlantic Bridge, one of Europe’s top performing growth technology funds, has announced a new €60 million investment fund for early stage companies with global potential that are built from world class research from all Irish third-level institutions and universities.

UCD has won the Mature Spin-out Company Impact Award with Logentries at the 2016 Knowledge Transfer Ireland (KTI) Impact Awards. The Award was presented by Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at an event held last night at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin.

The US Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin O’Malley and Ireland’s Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs & Natural Resources, Seán Kyne TD, announced 39 new Fulbright Irish Awardees at the Ambassador’s Residence in Dublin. Five of these students are from University College Dublin.

UCD President, Professor Andrew J. Deeks and Irish Red Cross Head of International Relations and Cooperation, John Roche, travelled to India recently to sign an agreement and to launch a pilot study with the Indian Red Cross. The pilot study will assess the impact a mobile crowd source application will have on the charity’s efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) in India.

Twenty-one researchers have today completed the seventh UCD Commercialisation Bootcamp, delivered over the last 5 weeks at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs at University College Dublin.

The Awards celebrate excellence in research innovation that has taken place on the island of Ireland as a result of US business investment. This is the second year of the joint initiative between the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy.

Researchers at University College Dublin (UCD), Ulster University and Florida State University have been awarded 2.5 million euro to investigate the effectiveness of gastric bypass surgery under the US-Ireland Research and Development Partnership grant programme.

The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced that Professor Cormac Taylor, UCD School of Medicine and UCD Conway Institute, is to be presented with the 2017 Takeda Distinguished Research Award by the Society’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology Section.

A new 3-year Innovation Partnership programme in food quality and safety was launched today at University College Dublin (UCD).The €1.7 million Enterprise Ireland and industry funded programme, Sequencing Alliance for Food Environments (SAFE), aims to develop a new predictive software toolbox to enhance food quality and safety approaches, nationally and with global reach, using environmental intelligence data.

Professor Des Higgins, Conway Institute Fellow and Professor of Bioinformatics, UCD School of Medicine and Systems Biology Ireland will receive the Kimura Motoo award in recognition of his significant contributions to the advancement of evolutionary biology, and to the field of molecular phylogeny specifically.

New UCD research findings, published in Circulation, the highest impact journal in the cardiovascular field, indicate that replacing dietary carbohydrate with monounsaturated fat in otherwise obesogenic diets is better for the cardiovascular health.

Developed in 2015 by the American Chamber of Commerce, Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy, the awards recognise and acknowledge exemplary ideas, originating in Irish organisations, making a social and economic impact through research innovation in meeting market needs.

University College Dublin (UCD) and IBM in Ireland has announced the expansion of the research collaboration between both organisations with the establishment of a new software development collaboratory.

Mr Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission, recently visited University College Dublin (UCD) and was welcomed to the University by Professor Andrew J. Deeks, President, UCD.

On February 19th, a delegation led by Vice Minister Tan Tianxing of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council paid a special visit to Professor Da-Wen Sun, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, and held a meeting with UCD Chinese academic staff and postgraduate students.

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